Sharon Kam, ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Gregor Bühl – Weber, Kurpiński & Crusell: Works for Clarinet & Orchestra (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 53:41 minutes | 923 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Orfeo
Together with Bernhard Henrik Crusell’s concerto (composed in the same year – 1811 – as Weber’s) and that by the Polish composer Karol Kurpiński (which still remains unknown), this album is a diverse survey of early Romantic-era clarinet concertos.
“After 20 years of recording the Weber concerto with Kurt Masur, I see and feel this piece very differently. I now try to play it more lightly, more ‘Rossini-like’, than the heavier romantic approach I previously adopted”, she explains.
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ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra & Gregor Bühl – Orchestral Works (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 59:07 minutes | 1,01 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Capriccio
Slightly the audience remember that Im as a descendant of writing tonal music still alive and continue composing. (Walter Braunfels, 1946) Walter Braunfels is a composer whose music died twice: Once when the Nazis declared his music degenerate art. Then again when post-war Germany had little use for the various schools of tonal music; when the arbiters of taste considered any form of romantic music almost the whole pre-war aesthetic to be tainted. This 9th release of Capriccios Braunfels Edition shows us also an open-minded composer who experimented with Jazz elements in his Divertimento for radio-orchestra in 1929.
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